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Pamela Gerry, RN, CCT Registered Nurses, who are also Certified
Colonic Therapists, are a rare breed; in fact, Pamela is the only RN, CCT in the Tri-state area. Pamela
Gerry has been an RN since 1975. She apprenticed as a colonic therapist in Boston in 1978, then took a refresher course to
earn her certification as a CCT. (Certified Colonic Therapist.) In 2004, she traveled to Vancouver to obtain the certification
offered by Prime Pacific Health Innovations (www.thecolonet.com), because her research indicated that this clinical experience, coupled with the academic piece provided by Boucher College
of Naturopathic Medicine (http://www.binm.org/), would provide her with the state-of-the-art foundation that she wanted to offer her clients. After graduating from nursing school- (clinical portion- Whidden
School of Nursing, Everett, Ma.; academic portion- Northeastern University, Boston), she wanted more than info about “drugs
and post-op surgical care”; she wanted to learn about ‘natural healing’, not palliation. At that time, there
were no graduate courses in her preferred field, so she designed her own modules and set out to study with the world’s
most skilled ‘holistic’ healers. First up, was an apprenticeship with Dr. Ann Wigmore, the “Mother”
of the Holistic movement. At the Hippocrates Health Institute, (Boston), Pamela was introduced to juicing, raw foods, fasting
and colonic therapies. From there, she latched on to the American Natural Hygiene Association where Dr.
Herbert Shelton's Natural Hygiene teachings continue to guide her. For 20 years she had proximity to renowned
healers/educators including: Drs. Doug Graham, Keki Sidhwa, Alec and Nejla Burton, D.J. Scott, Frank Sabatino, T. Colin
Campbell, Neal Barnard, Alan Goldhamer, Joel Fuhrman, Vivian Vetrano, and others. For ten years, she sat
on the board of directors of this organization, helping it to transition into the National Health Association- www.healthscience.org. In 1996,
Pamela’s husband was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma- (tonsil), with metastasis (Stage 4) by the docs at Dana
Farber, and told he had a 20% chance to survive 2 years. When her husband made the decision to forego all
conventional treatment, not only were the couple penalized by having to pay for all treatments out-of-pocket- (they had “excellent”
conventional health insurance, (HealthSource), at the time that would have paid for a radical neck re-section, chemo and radiation),
but they were also snickered at ("The immune system and diet have nothing to do with cancer..."), and treated
condescendingly by attending practitioners. The couple had to travel to NYC to find an MD, (hemotologist, oncologist,
pharmacologist), who could guide them using non-toxic modalities. The first thing he told them when they entered his
office was, "Please don't tell anyone where you are coming; if the FDA knows I have success treating cancer, they will
shut me down." Very long story short- Doug survived the death sentence, using all natural approaches, and is vital
to this day. (And when he later visited those practitioners who had doubted his desired approach, they took notes as he told
his story.) This
experience, coupled with an incident that Pamela will never forget- (early in her career, while working at Salem Hospital
as an agency nurse doing medication dispensing,) - an elderly man was admitted who had just lost his wife. The
poor guy was mourning- anorexic, listless; - not understanding, his family had him admitted to the hospital for evaluation.
Within 5 days he was on 3 meds, and by the second week he was on 7. He died in his sleep soon after
that, and when she approached the Head Nurse to express concern that the multi-med interaction may have contributed to this
man’s demise, Pamela was abruptly dismissed with, “If you don’t want to be a team player, get off the team!”-
This caused Pamela to become greatly disheartened. She felt she could no longer take part in the system
as a conventional nurse, but what could she do with the education she had invested in? She cross-trained with local
nurse-midwives, and began to assist in out-of-hospital, birth-center births. At this point in her journey, Pamela has developed great expertise
in understanding the language of the body, expressed through its symptomatology. Perhaps the greatest learning
experience for her to date, has been a month-long, water-only, therapeutic fast, medically supervised by Dr. D.J. Scott of
www.fastingbydesign.net. This was an incredible emotional, physical and spiritual experience that demonstrated the amazing recuperative
capability of the human organism. A life-long learner, Pamela is currently studying local identification
and foraging of wild edible and medicinal plants, whose constituents are exponentially more nutritious than culitvated
plants. Mentor - http://www.arthurhaines.com/ Pamela
is concerned about the union that currently exists between corporations and government, to the point that ‘profit’
now trumps everything, including the kind of ‘health care’ citizens receive. While conventional Western
medicine does provide state-of-the-art care in trauma intervention, burn care, neo-natology and orthopedics, internationally, our
rank of 24th indicates we do not provide the best outcomes for our medical patients. (WHO report- ) http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf Pamela urges everyone to ‘study, to show themselves approved’, so they
will be able to advocate, and to be responsible for themselves. Truly, "Health Care Is Self Care",
and 'prevention' is the key to an optimal outcome.
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